Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEAUTY AND BRAIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis First Line: When I was old, and she was young Last Line: That beauty has too small a brain. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences | ||||||||
When I was old, and she was young, With all the beauty hers I wooed her with a silver tongue, With music for her ears; And shall I now complain to find That Beauty has so small a mind? If this young Chit had had more sense Would she have married me? That she gave me the preference, Proved what a fool was she: Then let me die if I complain That Beauty has too small a brain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GHOST IN THE MARTINI by ANTHONY HECHT THE NIGHT BEFORE FATHER'S DAY by DENISE DUHAMEL PREFERENCE by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES I REMEMBER by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH A SONG OF A YOUNG LADY TO HER ANCIENT LOVER by JOHN WILMOT FROM A YOUNG WOMAN TO AN OLD OFFICER WHO COURTED HER by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST ON THE MARRIAGE OF A BEAUTEOUS YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN WITH AN ANCIENT MAN by FRANCIS BEAUMONT WHAT CAN A YOUNG LASSIE DO by ROBERT BURNS LINES ON MY NEW CHILD SWEETHEART by THOMAS CAMPBELL A BIRD'S ANGER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |
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